[5-100] Some Tips for Fighting against Depression I have been depressed for several days. I definitely know how does it feel. It is pretty much like all of your kindness, activity, and your passions have drained out. You are always sad, not interested in anything. Even a small disagreement will lead your outrage. You are alike a plant, burning by the fierce sunshine of depression. The experiences happened some times before. In the past, I didn't know what to do, but to wait until it went away itself. This time I decide to do something and try if I can make things better. Here are some tips: 1. Try to see the good side of things. This encourages and pushes you to use the sensor of happiness in your brain. The sensor has been closed for a long time, and you have to activate it. This will bring you back to the world, and regain the ability of interesting in the world. 2. Repeat the colors Speak the color you see when you go out. You will be pretty surprised that you have ignored so many details. You almost see the same things every day, but you never pay attention to its color. 3. Going Out Exposing to the sunlight stimulates a sort of hormone， which can relieve the press, and make you happy. I don't know what it is called, but it doesn't matter. 4. Lower your expectation, and do your jobs immediately Just the words mean. High expectations will give us more stress. I am not trying to express that you shouldn't place higher expectation of yourself. You know, we are tried now, facing a lot of depression and almost don't know what to do next. The most important thing for us is to leave this area, pull ourselves together and take everything back on track. Adjust your aims and make them easy to execute. So it will be easy for you to act right now. Hope this helps.

4. How to Find Your Dream This is the fourth passage on my plan. I found it is hard to insist on doing the same thing every day. When I was a child, things were different. I was a good student, and finish my homework well and on time. Since when the situation has become this way? I don't know why. I found myself very difficult to be concentrated, and the efficiency is always low. A timer was used to make me be focusing, but it hasn't been used for a long time. In the childhood, it was easy to speak what my dream was. I wanted to be an astronaut. But now, I don't know what is my dream. I am lacking money, maybe I should focus myself on earning more money. But I am not motivated enough to make some change. Things become urgent. Making some change and insist on doing something. But I don't know how to make myself energetic again.

3-100 How to become bilingual? It is very common to see a person who is bilingual or trilingual on italki personal profiles. It usually happens to European or American. I really admire those guys, and I always very curious about how they did that. Someone in my country may say that all the European languages are similar. Once you grasp one, it will become very easy for you to understand the others. But I don't think so. I've seen the differences between German and English. That's totally from two worlds! I read a passage about how to learn Spanish earlier. It said that a Chinese will need about 4 years to achieve C1 level, but a person in the US may only need 2 years. Not only for the Americans, but also the Asian who learn Spanish in the US. What makes the difference? Do they have a special way to learn a new language?

2-100 Traffic Condition in My City Yesterday I talked with my teacher about phobias. I am not scared of traveling by plane, looking down from a skyscraper, small spaces or crowded places. Besides insect, bugs and worms, you know what makes me feel being afraid of? When someone gives me a drive, and he doesn't wear a seat belt. It is common in my city that drivers don't fasten the seat belt. Most of them say the seat belt makes them uncomfortable and it doesn't matter if they don't wear it. You know that for some prime cars, if don't buckle up while you are driving, there will be an alarm warning you. For some car owners, they just ignore it. But for other seat-belt-haters, they are alarm haters, too. Consequently, a kind of fake seat belt buckles is produced. You just insert it to the groove, and the car system deems you have already buckled up, and the alarm stops at once. Previously, we don't have a law to force all the drivers to buckle up. But about 2 years earlier, the regulation was established. Drivers who don't obey the law will be fined. That is a good sign. It has made citizens realize the importance of wearing the seat belt. Some other traffic problems are still existing. But I think the traffic condition will be improved in the short future.

1-100 Trying to write passage everyday in the following days Hello. I am back. It has been for more than 2 months since I visited itaki. I was busy and maybe had some emotional problems these days. I didn't want to learn and didn't want to talk to anybody. After work, I went home. I just was lying on the sofa, and watching the time slip. I stepped into some problem, and completely have no idea on the solutions. I bought a lot of books, trying to figure out something useful from them. But I don't even want to open the envelope. Finally, finally, there is not much money in my bank account. So I was pushed to get up, scrambled to pull myself together. Just start with stick on doing the same thing in the following 100 days. Wish me luck.